T-rex: A dinosaur in Hollywood.
Impossible Pictures/BBC Television (BBC1 8pm). Dir. Michael Davis
Using a witty combination of state of the art computer generated images, stunning archive film, quirky dramatic reconstructions and frequently surprising interviews, T-rex: A Dinosaur in Hollywood tells the life story of the Tyrant Lizard King. Skipping over the rather dull 65 million years that it took T-rex to get noticed the film traces his story from awe inspiring museum exhibit to Hollywood megastar.
Jellyfish Pictures were asked to create a series of characters that have acted with T-rex down the years such as a B-movie alien and King Kong himself. We re-visit them and find out what they thought of Rex. As for T-rex, Jellyfish had to come up with many guises of the dinosaur, from his early claymation days through B-movie stardom on the techni-colour screen to more recent incarnations. We seen him as a cowboy in a shoot-out, on the treadmill working out, in his bedroom having a nightmare, and on set in different locations. He even pops up at the McCarthy trials!